I will be a part of a panel at the Roxbury Poetry Festival with Quintin Collins, Imani Davis, and Sarah Kersey entitled Culture as Container: How Identities Serve as Forms for Writing

Identity and ancestry can create recurring signatures in writing. Plot lines, images, and other craft elements take on some unique approaches, creating containers that the writers find themselves within or rail against from piece to piece. Four writers will read from their poetry and discuss how their cultural backgrounds serve as forms for their work, highlighting specific craft elements in their own work and work of their kin writers, as well as distinct aspects of craft that they see as originating from within their communities.